Column by David in The Times.
I’VE BEEN IN MALLORCA THIS WEEK, and, of course, visited Robert Graves house in Deia, a key trip for those British tourists wishing to demarcate themselves from the ones who persist in thinking it‘s still the Marmite-sold-here package paradise of the 1970s: the ones who, sadly, still spell it with a “j”. (including this newspaper, Ed).
Column by David in The Times.
LIBRARIES, GENERALLY, DON’T HAVE a glamorous rap. No doubt most of them are now state-of-the-art, Web 2.0driven, Starbucks-outlet-attached centres of the Zeitgeist, but there still hangs around in the mind an association of book-lending with sleeping tramps, big-print sections, somewhat musty smells and microfiche. Great news, however, from across the pond: a man named Thomas Pilaar has transformed the reputation of libraries for ever, by using them for that most sexy of modern adventures – the long con.